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KHADIJAH COSTLEY WHITE Assistant Professor Department of Journalism and Media Studies School of Communication, Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 phone: (215) 272-0814 | email: [email protected] | website: khadijahwhite.com EDUCATION 2013 PhD Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania Dissertation: Raising the Volume: Media and the Rise of the 21st Century Tea Party Fontaine Scholar; Graduate Certificate in Africana Studies 2008 Campaign 2008 Leadership in Communication, Presidential Academic Seminar Series, Denver, CO/St. Paul, MN 2009 MA Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania 2004 BA Swarthmore College Self-designed Major: Social Justice; Minors: Black Studies, Peace & Conflict Studies 2003 NYU in Madrid, Spain PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 2014–2015 Post Doctoral Associate, Department of Journalism & Media Studies, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University – New Brunswick 2015 - present Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University-New Brunswick 2013 Assistant Teaching Professor, Drexel University 2011–2013 Lecturer, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania 2009 Volunteer Lecturer, Thomas Rubino Academy 2007–2008 Media Instructor, PBS/WHYY FELLOWSHIPS 2020 Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Fellowship 2017 AAUW American Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Alternate White, June 2020 | 2 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Annenberg Summer Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania 2010 White House Internship: Communications Department–Broadcast Media team 2008 Africana Studies Graduate Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania 2008 National Association of Black Journalists and United Nations Fellowship 2007 Fontaine Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania 2007 Institute for Recruitment of Teachers Associate Fellowship GRANTS AND AWARDS Grants 2020 $50,000 Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Fellowship 2020 $4,000 Research Grant for Individual Faculty Research from School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University - New Brunswick 2018 $180 Program for Early Career Excellence Mini-Grant, Rutgers University – New Brunswick 2016 $13,000 Research Grant for Family Story/Color of Change Literature Review and Research Proposal, New Venture Fund, Washington, DC 2015 $1,500 Instructional Enhancement Grant, Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University – New Brunswick Awards 2019 Excellence in Research Award, Dept. of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 2019 Certificate of Completion – Program for Early Career Excellence, Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 2016 Maplewood Recognition for Community Service (for SOMA Justice) 2016 Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 2014 Women’s Achievement Award Nominee, CBS Philly 2014 White, June 2020 | 3 2013 Emerging Diversity Scholar Citation, National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan 2012, 2009 Summer Culture: Scholars Program in Culture and Communication, University of Pennsylvania 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 Fontaine Travel Award, University of Pennsylvania 2012 Women of Color at Penn Award, Honoree, University of Pennsylvania 2011 Fontaine Excellence in Leadership and Academic Service Award, University of Pennsylvania 2006 Emmy nomination, Payment Due, NOW on PBS PUBLICATIONS Books and Special Issues White, K. (2018). Branding right-wing activism: The news media and the Tea Party, Oxford University Press. Ng, E., White, K., & Saha, A. (co-editors). (2020). #CommunicationSoWhite – Special issue of Communication, Ctulture, and Critique. Journal Articles White K. (Accepted). Oceanic Negroes: Communicating Pacific Blackness down, out, and under. International Journal of Communications. White, K. (;Forthcoming November 2020). “MeToo” is hers: Branding social movements in a digital age. Women’s Studies in Communication (WSIC). Christian, A., & White, K. (Forthcoming September 2020). Organic representation as cultural reparations. Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Ng. E., White, K., & Saha, A. (2020). Race and power in the academy: New interventions in #CommunicationSoWhite. Communication, Culture, and Critique. https://doi.org10.1093/ccc/tcaa011 White, K. (2020). #CommunicationSoWhite – Interview with Oscar Gandy and Herman Gray. Communication, Culture, and Critique. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcaa008 White, K. (2018). Herman in theory and practice: Race and power. Media Theory, 2 (2) 117-126. http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/63/53 White, K. (2016). Black lives on campuses matter: Reflecting on the rise of the new Black student White, June 2020 | 4 movement. Soundings: Journal of Politics and Culture, 63, 86-97. https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/sites/default/files/s63_08white.pdf White, K. (2015). Belongingness and the Harlem drummers. Urban Geography, 36(3), 340-358. White, K. (2014). Fade from Black: Black becoming Africana. Journal of Pan African Studies, 6(10). http://www.jpanafrican.org/docs/vol6no10/6.10-15-White.pdf White, K. (2011). Michelle Obama: Redefining the (White) House-wife. Thirdspace: A Journal of Feminist Theory and Culture, 10(1). https://journals.sfu.ca/thirdspace/index.php/journal/article/viewArticle/white Book Chapters White, K. ( Forthcoming 2021). “Tea Party News, Post-Feminism, and a Post-Truth Society. In Institute for Research on Women. Feminist Bookshelf series, Rutgers University Press. White, K. ( Forthcoming). Soul sisters. In B. Haggins (Ed.), TV memories: Love letters to our television past. Rutgers University Press. Stanfill, M., White, K., Korn, J., Martin, J., & Gurrie, C. (2018). Climate on campus: Intersectional interventions in contemporary struggles. In D. T. Scott & A. Shaw (Eds.), Interventions: Communication theory and practice (pp. 229-244). Peter Lang. White, K. (2017). The case of “misguided” “thugs”: Baltimore youth, activism, and news. In L. Steiner & S. Waisbord (Eds.), Race, rage, and the city: Uncovering Baltimore (pp. 159-175). Routledge. Christian, A. J., & White, K. (2016). One-man Hollywood: The decline of black creative production in post-network television. In In T. M. Russworm, S. N. Sheppard, & K. M. Bowdre (Eds.), From Madea to Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry (pp. 138-158). University of Mississippi Press. White, K. (2012). Considering sound: Language, meaning and the construction of noise. In P. Hegarty, B. Halligan, & M. Goddard (Eds.), Reverberations: Affect, politics, and aesthetics (pp. 233-243). Continuum. White, K. (2008). “Agitate! Agitate! Agitate!: Robert Moses.” In J. Siceloff & J. Maloney (Eds.), Your America: Democracy’s local heroes (pp. 101-118). Palgrave Macmillan. Book Reviews White, K. (2009). Review of Polluted promises: Environmental racism and the search for justice in a Southern town by M. Checker. Transforming Anthropology, 17(2), 169-170. White, June 2020 | 5 Technical Report White, K. & Renninger, B. (May 17, 2016). Representation of the Black family in mainstream news media: A report for family story and color of change. Final report to national media organizations Family Story and Color of Change. Public Scholarship and Popular Press Articles (selected) White, K. and Serravallo, J. (2020, Feb 23) We don’t have to scare kids while we’re trying to keep them safe. Star Ledger. Available at: https://www.nj.com/opinion/2020/02/we-dont-have- to-scare-kids-while-were-trying-to-keep-them-safe-opinion.html White, K. (2018, July 4). For hope in Trump’s America, I read Sojourner Truth. New York Times. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/04/opinion/sunday/trump-politics-hope- sojourner-truth.html White, K. (2018, Dec 16). Black activist and scholar: Discrimination is clear, here’s how police practices could be improved. Star Ledger. Available at: https://www.nj.com/opinion/2018/12/black-activist-and-scholar-discrimination-is-clear- heres-how-police-practices-could-be-improved.html White K. (2018, February 28). What we all can do about racism, Star Ledger/NJ.com, Available at: https://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/02/black_history_month_how_to_combat_r acism_when_its.html White, K. (2016, May 25). On Freddie Gray and the America I know. Role Reboot. Available at http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2016-05-freddie-gray-america-know White, K. (2016, March 21). Why you shouldn’t be surprised by Donald Trump’s rise. Role Reboot. Available at http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2016-03-shouldnt- surprised-donald-trumps-rise White, K. (2015, December 29). When will they stop killing us?: On Tamir Rice and being black in America. Role Reboot. Available at http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and- politics/details/2015-12-when-will-they-stop-killing-us-on-tamir-rice-and-being-black-in- america White, K. (2015, November 24). How to talk to your kids about race. Role Reboot. Available at http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2015-11-how-to-talk-to-your-kids- about-race White, K. (2015, June 13). Blackness isn’t something that can be acquired with a little bronzer: On Rachel Dolezal. Quartz. Available at http://qz.com/427519/rachel-dolezal-is-not- transracial White, K. (2015, June 10). To the black girls in America, survival can be an unspeakable burden. White, June 2020 | 6 Quartz. Available at http://qz.com/422835/to-the-black-girls-in-america-survival-can-be-an- unspeakable-burden White, K. (2015,